Skip to content

Opening City Doors to London Financial Market Employment

  • Home
  • Market Knowledge
    • Intro
    • 10 Fixed Income ‘Must Knows’
    • 10 Equity ‘Must Knows’
    • 10 FX ‘Must Knows’
    • Financial Benchmarks
    • My Typical Day As A Bond Trader
    • Buy Side Versus Sell Side
    • What Culture For You?
  • Advice
    • Intro
    • Covering Letter
    • CV
    • Interviews
      • Telephone Interviews
      • “Tell Me About Yourself”
      • Investment Banking Questions – 1
      • Investment Banking Questions – 2
      • “Where Would You Invest USD 1 Million?”
      • How Does Geopolitical Risk Affect Markets?
    • Job Searching
      • Networking 1
      • Networking 2
      • Networking 3
    • How To Convert Your Spring Week
  • Financial Institutions
    • Intro
    • Tier 1
    • Tier 2 & 3
    • FinTech/Vendors
  • About
    • Opening City Doors
    • Paul McCormick
    • Testimonials
  • Contact Us

Author: Paul McCormick

Paul McCormick is the founder of Opening City Doors and is a Financial Market Specialist having worked for several leading Investment Banks and financial technology institutions additionally.He therefore provides a unique insight, and unusually broad perspective, into the opportunities available in London Financial Markets and related sectors and how to launch your career in the ‘City’.
  • Home
  • Paul McCormick

Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on December 2, 2025December 2, 2025
  • Financial

In writing 3 weeks ago, I stated stock markets were pretty much at all-time-highs with interest rates slowly coming down and Trump’s tariff rhetoric pretty […]

Graduate Market Update Read More

Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on November 10, 2025November 10, 2025
  • Financial Market Summaries

Global stocks have reached all-time highs but the question continues to be asked “Are we in an AI bubble?” with Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon […]

Graduate Market Update Read More

Graduate Market Update for Interview

By Paul McCormickPosted on September 27, 2025September 27, 2025
  • Financial Market Summaries

EQUITIES Despite all the trouble, and potential trouble, in the world, global equity markets are at all-time-highs. Why is this? -Markets are always forward looking […]

Graduate Market Update for Interview Read More

Where would you invest USD 1 Million today?

By Paul McCormickPosted on September 27, 2025September 27, 2025
  • Financial

A common question especially in Asset Management interviews In thinking on where to invest $1 million I first think about what a typical investor portfolio […]

Where would you invest USD 1 Million today? Read More

Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on August 26, 2025August 26, 2025
  • Financial Market Summaries

STOCKS – To summarise, global stock markets are trading just about at all-time highs and roughly 25% above the April low’s when markets sold off […]

Graduate Market Update Read More

Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on July 6, 2025July 6, 2025
  • Financial Market Summaries

Global stock markets have been strong in June rebounding from levels 20% lower a couple of months ago. The sharp falls triggered by Trump’s Liberation […]

Graduate Market Update Read More

Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on May 13, 2025
  • Career
  • Financial Market Summaries

One thing we promised with the Trump Administration at the beginning of the year was market volatility and we have seen that. The last 5 […]

Graduate Market Update Read More

Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on March 11, 2025March 11, 2025
  • Financial Market Summaries

The one thing we promised in the last couple of posts was market volatility with Donald Trump at the helm. We had the initial euphoria […]

Graduate Market Update Read More

Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on January 21, 2025January 21, 2025
  • Financial Market Summaries

There are two things to consider: The state of the global/US economy right now and then the potential impact of Donald Trump’s second term in […]

Graduate Market Update Read More

Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on November 30, 2024November 30, 2024
  • Financial Market Summaries

STOCKS: US stocks had their biggest monthly gains of the year in November: The blue-chip S&P 500 index is up 5.9% for the month following […]

Graduate Market Update Read More

Posts navigation

Older

Mission Statement

  • Click Here

Paul McCormick

Paul McCormick is the founder of Opening City Doors and is a Financial Market Specialist. He provides a unique insight, and unusually broad perspective, into the opportunities available in London Financial Markets and related sectors and how to launch your career in the ‘City’.

 

Follow Opening City Doors on LinkedIn

Tweets by @openingcitydoor
Copyright © 2025 Opening City Doors to London Financial Market Employment. All Rights Reserved | Blog Diary by Theme Palace